The Media Sustainability Essentials guide helps media managers identify and choose the most relevant business models and practices that fit with their  missions and operating conditions.

Implementation Tip for USAID Partners on how to recruit an effective, diverse, and inclusive board of directors.

Implementation Tip for USAID Partners on governance, management, and the role of the board of directors. 

Implementation Tip for USAID Partners on strategic planning. 

Implementation Tip for USAID Partners on how to tell success stories to demonstate your impact.

Implementation Tip for USAID Partners on developing a marketing communication plan.

Implementation Tip for USAID Partners on connecting with prospective partners and funders. 

This Guide was developed to help program designers who work in any sector to envision and implement with CSO partners the CD support that will strengthen local systems and help CSOs achieve their missions. Program designers from both implementing partner and donor organizations who are working to build the capacity of CSOs can use this Guide to better distinguish among CD approaches, the processes involved in each, and potential impact of a chosen approach. By identifying organizational characteristics and areas of potential capacity growth, this Guide will enable program designers to better select the intervention necessary to achieve their desired goal. Although this Guide is designed to benefit CSOs, the approaches outlined can also be applied to community based organizations (CBOs) or local for-profit organizations. The approaches included in this Guide are designed to increase capacity regardless of the actual knowledge or skill targeted.  

Part Three, “Connecting with Donors,” of NPI's Going the Distance focuses on various communication modes with donors, such as developing and delivering elevator speeches, writing capability and systems (capacity) statements and connecting with donors.

Organizational Effectiveness Series; This manual provides nonprofit community-based organization board and staff members with new insight and specific tools and resources for building an effective board.Unit 1: Board Roles and Responsibilities; Unit 2: Board Selection Composition and Recruitment; Unit 3: Board Structure: Officers and Committees; Unit 4: Orientation and Training; Unit 5: Governance Versus Management; Unit 6: Managing Board Change; Unit 7: Board Assessment and Evaluation; Post-Training Assessment